Infants Remembered In Silence (IRIS) - Poems

For The Best

By Deborah Rowe

Dedicated to Baby Kiernan Rowe, November 18, 1992

Who are you to tell me that the loss of my child is
for the best?

Is it for the best
that I will never experience the joy of his birth?

Is it for the best
that this child will never hear my voice or know my love?

Is it for the best
that I will never hold my child in my arms?

Is it for the best
that my child will never have the chance to live and grow?

Is it for the best
that I will never hear my child’s laughter?

Is it for the best
that my heart breaks every time I think of my baby?

When I tell you that I have lost my baby through miscarriage and you don’t know what to say, just say “I’m sorry.”

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